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Left to right: Bob
Markison, Joan Baranow, David
Watts
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Word of Mouth is a lively
collaboration between poetry and music.
Written in the silence of the poets' imaginations, these poems
began with their own, innate music.
How delightful to discover that Robert Markison's musical
improvisations add an exciting dimension to the poems, changing forever -
and for the better - the ways in which they are heard and read.
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Joan Baranow, voice
David Watts, voice and
acoustic bass
Robert Markison, saxophone,
flute, trumpet, recorder, lap steel guitar, keyboard and wind
synthesizers, acoustic and synthesized percussion.
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Bob Markison,
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Robert Markison is a musician, artist and surgeon.
His passions include the redesign of musical instruments and other
tools for the relief of strained hands.
He has published widely on various medical and non-medical subjects
and, like David, is an educator at UCSF and elsewhere.
He counts himself as most fortunate to have this creative
collaboration. |
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To the Powerful Seeds
CD |
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Joan Baranow: |
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Joan Baranow grew up in Connecticut, Maryland, and upstate
New York, and now makes her home in Mill Valley, California with her
husband, poet David Watts.
She finds inspiration from the natural world of the West Coast as
well as from the landscapes of her childhood.
Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Feminist
Studies, The Spoon River Poetry Review, US-1 Worksheets,
Western Humanities Review, The Western Journal of Medicine,
and elsewhere.
She currently has a poem sequence featured in the online journal Feminism
and Nonviolence Studies. She won an Individual Artists Fellowship
in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and is a member of the Squaw Valley
Community of Writers.
Joan earned a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University.
Her *chapbook, Morning,
was published by Radiolarian Press. Living
Apart, issued by Plain View Press, is her first full-length
book of poetry.
For the past twelve years she has led writing workshops at the
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation biennial Poetry Festival.
With her husband David she is producing Healing
Words, a video documentary on poetry about illness and
recovery.
Joan has always loved the music of language. In the creation of the
CD Powerful Seeds she finds her
own musical voice deepened by the music of jazz.
*chapbook: A small booklet, traditionally made by the poet and given away
upon celebratory occasions. Nowadays, it is usually a saddleback stapled,
small collection of poems distributed by smaller publishers. |
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To Joan's Living Apart
Book |
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David Watts,
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David Watts grew up in Central Texas and trained first as a
musician then as a medical doctor.
He was on-camera host for PBS, Lifetime Network and
local television news in the 1980's and was a live radio host on KQED-FM.
His commentaries on the practice of medicine can be heard on
National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
His practice of medicine and gastroenterology is at the University
of California, San Francisco - where he teaches in the medical school.
In 1992 he earned a Masters in English/Poetry from San Francisco
State University and now teaches poetry at the Fromm Institute.
His own poetry has been published in The Gettysburg Review, The
Antioch Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The New
Virginia Review and other magazines.
His book Making was
awarded the Talent House Prize in 1999.
He is currently working on a television special examining the
relationship between poetry and medicine.
He lives with his wife, Joan Baranow, and four-year-old son in Mill
Valley, California.
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To David's Books
and Tape |
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